Enable Advanced Reboot Options on Cyanogenmod

by Bill Rawlinson — 24 May 2013

For a few months now I’ve noticed that the option to reboot into recovery has
been missing from my cyanogenmod rom’d android phone. I’m running the latest
nightlies and not being able to quickly reboot into recovery is the epitome of
a first world problem. Be that as it may I still wanted the feature back so I
finally spent a few minutes googling for the solution.

enable developer options. These used to be in the normal settings screen for the phone but they are hidden now.

go to about phone

scroll to the bottom

find the “build number” field

click on it seven times and it will turn on developer options.

go back one level to the main settings screen and you’ll see developer options now. Open that

Enable advanced reboot options by clicking on the relevant checkbox

go back to the main settings menu again and then click on “System” under the interface section

Inside the system menu click on “Power Menu”

Make sure “reboot menu” is checked.

That’s it. It’s relatively simple but because the settings are very hidden it
can be next to impossible to find them. Please note that the reboot options
won’t appear if your phone isn’t unlocked.